Tag Archives: New York state

The SPLC-certified hate group MassResistance reports that the Ultra-Orthodox Torah Jews for Decency today lobbied New York state senators to oppose marriage equality. I believe this is the same group that stood uncomfortably on Sen. Ruben Diaz’ hate stage while speakers condemned anybody who didn’t accept Jeebus as their personal savior.

This weekend in Fairport, New York, Jason Curtis, 14, counter-protested the red-caped loons of the Society for Defense of Tradition. “I know kids that are gay and I don’t want them to be criticized,” he said. [Photo credit: Bethany Young]

“I was so nervous that morning that I threw up. I spoke against him across the street, directly within his view. But then I approached a police officer who escorted me to the podium where he spoke. My grandfather introduced me to the crowd and kissed me on the forehead. ‘This is my granddaughter,” he said. ‘She chose her way …

The red-caped loons of the anti-gay Catholic Society for Defense of Tradition are claiming that a “pro-homosexual advocate” tore up their banner at a street protest in Fairport, New York this weekend. The video of the “attack” looks very, very staged to me. (I’ll be calling Fairport police today and see if any report was actually filed.) It’s also interesting …

Via press release from Freedom To Marry: “Farid and George have been in a loving, committed relationship for over 10 years, doing the hard work of marriage – in addition to the hard work of owning a successful restaurant business together – yet without the support and respect marriage would provide,” said Evan Wolfson, Founder and President of Freedom to …

Steve Barnes at the Albany Times-Union reports: A prominent billboard urging a local politician to vote for same-sex marriage has a restaurant source: Bombers Burrito Bar. The billboard, on I-787 south between I-90 and the Clinton Avenue exit, is addressed to Republican Roy McDonald, who voted against gay marriage while in the Assembly and, in 2009, as a state senator …

Blabbeando blogger Andres Duque has transcribed NY Sen. Ruben Diaz’ appearance on Pura Politica, some of which I excerpted here yesterday. In the below clip, host Juan Manuel Benitez plays a 2009 interview segment in which Diaz compares being gay to having sex with animals, a position Diaz then defends. Start at around 6:00.

The Human Rights Campaign gives us a break from all the celebrity endorsements.

Pam’s House Blend guest columnist Tony Varona notes: Time and again I have seen how bilingual and bicultural politicians, religious leaders and other public figures make outrageously defamatory and inaccurate statements against the LGBT community in Spanish media that they would never get away with making in English-language broadcast and print interviews. Much of the time, the interviewer allows them …

With the legislative year fast drawing to an end, eight New York state senators say they have yet to make up their minds on same-sex marriage. The measure would need 32 votes for adoption in the Senate, and 26 senators, all Democrats, indicated they would back the bill. Twenty-eight senators expressed opposition — possibly leaving the measure’s fate in the …

“There is no just comparison between America’s struggle to overcome the evils of slavery and the promotion of the lifestyle of homosexuality. It is preposterous for Mayor Bloomberg to degrade and minimize the plight of African-Americans in this civil rights struggle by equating it with the effort to push to legalize homosexual marriage. Black Americans should not sit back and …

“Bloomberg’s speech today amounted to hollow words. He is the sole reason that Republicans are in the majority in the NYS Senate as he has propped them up literally with MILLIONS of dollars in just the last several years. And he has repeatedly said that he will NOT stop donating to Senators who oppose marriage equality–who also happen to be …

“In talking to state legislators who do not yet support marriage equality, I can sense that many of them are searching their souls for answers – and they are torn. Like all of us, they have friends and family and colleagues who are gay and lesbian. They know gay and lesbian couples who are deeply in love with each other …

From an open letter to NY Sen. Tom Libious: Dear Cousin Tom… I read online the other day that you’re co-sponsoring a bill to declare null and void (according to NY State Law) gay marriages that are performed in other states. I can only assume that some of your constituents may have persuaded you to vote against gay marriage previously. …

Erie County Clerk Kathy Hochul, who supports same-sex marriage and the repeal of DADT, last night won the special election to replace Rep. Chris Lee (R), who resigned earlier this year after being exposed for cruising Craigslist for women other than his wife. The election largely turned on the GOP’s campaign to dismantle Medicare. “Today, the Republican plan to end …

“Like many who heard about the prediction that a Biblical rapture world come upon us yesterday, I used the occasion to reflect upon my life. The rapture prediction put many of us in mind of our final judgment. Since no rapture took place and we are here continuing with our lives, I take from this a rededication to devoting myself …